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Main Line School Night programs are funded in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, whose mission is to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts throughout the state.

What happens when disease strikes a city of two million people, sickening half a million and killing more than 12,000 in just six weeks and 16,000 in six months? During fall 1918, in the last months of World War I, Philadelphia hosted the largest parade in its history. Within days, influenza casualties overwhelmed hospitals. Robert D. Hicks, Director of the Mütter Museum, joins us on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the flu pandemic in Philadelphia to discuss this horrific disaster and share highlights of the museum’s most ambitious exhibition in its history, opening in 2019, Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia.